“the system”? Pushing you?

Blame delusions and fantasies. Muricans aren’t pragmatic.

I used to DVR and watch the show faithfully. I’ve been a fan. “Fake” or not, it used to be entertaining on several levels -

I’m voting “nice price” for the work that’s gone into the condition.
A typical beater in decent shape would be $4K, this one is above-and-beyond.
Those hitting it with the “crack pipe” don’t seem to be the people in the restoration realm, so I think the criticism is a bit unfair...

You are thinking of a 7th gear as “always higher”. That’s Ferrari thinking.

“7th gear” could be innovative, or groan-worthy, since this is no Ferrari.

Is this just a test? I mean - come on.

First off, in this condition, for this car - “nice price”, no doubt.

Those are exactly the terrible cars at a terrible time, before America embraced Deming and lean manufacturing. No one should have been gullible enough to buy any American cars back then (with the sole exception of the small original Saturn, which would later be mismanaged into GM badge engineering).

I knew a co-worker who owned one.

You don't.

Yeah... I can’t ENTIRELY disagree, but

Wow!

The average American male is still 5'9”.

Nope. Still haven’t grown on me yet.

If our unmolested, nice condition 90k mile Acura TSX isn’t worth $8k, then a Subaru Forester sure isn’t either (although I personally like the look and am sure I’d love the drive).

So... At least Nissan will start making Honda Elements again?

Where’s the “sleeper” argument??

Perspective:

The ONLY navigation system that should exist in cars is free Google Maps, leaching the little data it needs from your phone via the Bluetooth connection you already have.